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The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03
THE POWER or CAB.
How 1t Advances the Schemes Of Loud
MOuthed Politicians.

MOuthed POLITICIANS
Talk is cheap" affirms one of the
practical proverbs of the day. We beg
TO differ. Talk is not cheap; it is an
expensive commodity, and too often a
commodity of little value. The ability
to express ones thoughts in a concise,
ineligible and effective manner, IS
valuable accomplishment, but the
rhetorical art of making a spread
eagle speech with one grain of sense to
ten of superficial bombast, can almost
be rated as vice. Many a man
has elevated himself to a re-
sponsible position of public trust
with no fitness for the proper
discharge of his duties. But he could
make nice speech. he could shake up
his auditors with some side-splitting
anecdote, or melt them to tears by re-
citing some pathetic incident. No one
stopped to inquire whether in the man.
agement of his own affairs he was
success or failure. Nobody carefully
considered whether the ideas he adj
vanced were sensible or practical. He
could sway an audience and that was
considered conclusive test of his
ability. Isn't this a fair presentation
of the manner in which we select men
to administer our public affairs? A
man of admitted executive ability who
has made a success of his own business,
but has no rhetorical gifts, will stand no
show against the mealy-mouthed candi.
date who has failed in every thing he
has tried to do. but who can talk.
Talk is cheap, is itP Look over the
records of Congress and see what il
costs the country to print and publish
the useless talk, talk, talk that hinders
useful legislation and serves no better
purpose than to advance the personal
interests of ambitious politicians. The
country has to pay for all this talk, at
big round price, too, but the man who
has been sent to Congress has to furnish
his constituents some evidence OF his
great value, and nothing is more con-
elusive than long-winded speech.
Great is the gift d gab.-Rss'sr''
PI0l0Bs0sa
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03
A LATE dispatch from the Indial

A LATE dispatch from the Indian
Territory says: As the Kaw Indians
have taken a notion to sell half of the
country they now occupy, the Chero-
KEGS propose to offer n better price
than the Government will give This
land lies Immediately south of the Kan
sas line and the Cherokees wish to pur-
chase it because they do not want white
settlers in any part of the Territory as
yet. The Chickasaws are protesting
against the prices allowed for railroad
franchises through their country by the
appraisers. and the Government is con-
sidering the advisability of calling an
extra session of the Legislature to at
tend to the matter.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

AN enterprising German firm is
building up a large business in the
manufacture of liquid carbonic acid,
which. though so recently only a
scientific curiosity, is now in extensive
demand for industrial purposes. 1t is
used for charging beer in the caSk, in
the manufacture of seltzer waters, and
for fire extinguishers. BY its expan-
sion the Krupps of Essen subject their
great castings to the enormous pres
sure of twelve hundred atmospheres.
Its gas is also expected to prove valu-
able for initiating balloons to raise
.unken ships, heavy weights having
been very quickly raised from the sea
bottom by its aid.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03
SOMETHING of a surprise has been o.

SOMETHING of surprise has been oc-
casioned at Washington by the dis
covery that the large gold medal given
to General Grant for distinguished SER
vices in the Mexican war, which is
among the medals in the national mu-
scum, is bogus. All the Grant medals
have been weighed by the Smithsonian
sayants to test their value, and the
Mexican medal has been found to pos
scSs a specific gravity of only seven,
when it should weigh about sixteen.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

THE secretary of the Hebrew Dra-
matte Club which was giving an en-
tertainment at the hall in Spitalfelds,
London, in which the panic occurred
January Is. resulting in the loss of
several lives, has testified that the panic
was caused by the action of the secrc-
.al'y of a rival club.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03
SENATOR BFCK's hill to amend +

SENATOR BECK'S bill to amend the
Oleomargarine act, reduces the annual
tax on wholesale dealers from $3.50 to
500, and the license tax on retail deal
ers from $4S to $12 per annum. The
license tax upon manufacturers of ole
omagarine is left unchanged.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

AT present the Government of the
United States is without ministerial
representation at Berlin, Vienna and
Constantinople, Mr.. Pendleton being
absent from the tirst-namcd city and
no appointments having been made for
the succession to Sunset Cox and the
unfortunate Mr.. Kelley.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

WILLIAM OSMoTHERLY, the English
man who left Watertown, ID. r., on
Christmas day to walk to his claim. fif-
teen miles away, has been found frozen
in standing position in snow drift.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

GENERAL HAzEN caught the cold
which resulted in his death while eX-
amining an empty house in Washing
ton, which it was proposed to purchase
for the Signal Service. His imprudence
III going to Il White House reception
while suffering from the cold acceler-
ated its progress and FASTENED his
1nath
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

DISPATCHES from Odessa state that
the Russian executive tribunals of that
province have dismissed all Jewish as
slstants. Notaries have been also or
dered to discharge Jewish clerks within
two months
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

HERR BARrH, n Berlin editor, has
been sentenced to six months impris-
onmrnt for publishing the report that
The Gar had made Il deadly attack on
q German attache at St. Petersburg.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

THE inhabitants of the Maldive
islands, in the Indian Ocean, who are
as rule peaceable people, became
incensed recently at their Sultan be-
cause of his failure to remove certain
grievances of which they had COM
planned, invaded the palace, deposed
him and installed his nephew in his
pl1rp
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

Mr.. LABOUCHERE hears that Queen
Victoria wants Prince Alexander, of
Bulgaria, 20 wed the Duchess of Al
bany and settle down in England on
forty thousand dollars year
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

ALEXANDER JOHNSON, of Laugholm,
Dumfrieshirc, lately deceased, was the
oldest Free Mason in Great Britain.
He was ninety-tive years old, and had
belonged to the craft for more than
scVcntV-One Vp1rS
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03
MISCELLANEOUS

THE strike of the silk ribbon weavers OF
New York ended in the success of the en-
ployes.
FROM twenty to forty thousand long
shoremen, coal handlers, etc, went on
strike in New York on the eth. Trans
atlantic steamships were delayed in eonse-
Quence.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

The Adams Express Company has OBJ
tained possession of the express bus
mess on the Reading railroad, which
has been done by the railroad company
f,,
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Canadian Minister of Justice has
signed the warrant for sne extradition
of Hoke, the Peoria Qn.) bank de-
faulter
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

PRESIDENT and Mrs. Diaz, of Mexico;
have promised to be for tiine the
guests of Nine. Patu-Nicolini when
they 90 to Eutope a couple of years
hence,
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

IN the Chicago City Council the ordi-
nance advancing saloon licenses to
$1,000 each was defeated. The vote
was % tod.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03

NJ. DE LEssErs is going into society
more than ever since the downfall of
the Empire, and is ut a dance or dinner
almost every night.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03
vAGARIES OF SUPERSTITION.
Queer Act of a German Girl at Decatur,

ToLoS, Ill, Jan. 2S.-Carrie Stern,
comely German lass, came here year ago
from the old country in company with her
sister and two other girls. She has lived
in various families, the last being Ben Jor-
dams, two miles northwest of TolOno, God
fried Minthur, an ambitious young German,
residing with F. F. Adams, in Pesotum
Township, has nearly all this time PAID
court to Carrie, and at last they went TO
Decatur together TO be married. After
some delays they sought out the
County Clerk and requested mar
riage license That official, finding Carrie
was only seventeen years old, ques-
toned her closely, and found that she had
changed her mind and really did not want
to marry. The License was refused and
Minthur returned 10 Tolono this afternoon.
MISS Stern's only real cause for desiring to
avoid the marriage which she had herself
assisted to arrange, is peculiar one. Soon
after her arrival here from Germany she
and some other girls consulted fortune
teller at the Tolono House, who had told
her that within year she would run away
with man and then not marry him. She
believes that all else must be sacrificed II
necessary to verify the prophecy OF the
old hag She is at present with friends IN
Decatur. German society, both here and
there, is terribly agitated over the matter.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-03
AgrarIan Murder.

FORT SMITH, Ark, Jan. 29.-Anothef
bloody tragedy occurred in the Indian Ter
ritory to-day. 1t was the killing of Frank
Walker by man named Bannister. Walker
rented farm that Bannister occupied, but
the latter refused to vacate, whereupon
Walker went there with wagon and pro-
ceeded to move Bannister's household
effects. He was ordered to leave with his
wagon, but refused, and Bannister emptled
the contents of a double-barreled shotgun
into his body, causing instant death. Ban
mister is slightly wounded in the thigh. he
is suspected of having shot himself to build
an his theory of self-defepse, He says
Walker shot him and Then he killed Alu@
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09
New York Star.l

"The people want Cleveland
heartily exclaimed the venerable
Ex-Governor Curtin of Pennsyl-
vania yesterday at the st. James
Hotel, to a party of friends in the
corridor. "He grows in populari-
ty, because he has won the conf
dence of the people all over the
country. They are ready and anx-
ious to trust him for another term,
and eight years is none too long
for a President to serve. The
Democrats of Pennsylvania are
solid for Cleveland, and in my
opinion he will be nominated in
1888 by reclamation. His nomi-
nation, of course, is equivalent to
an election. Nothing in the polit-
ical horizon at present can prevent
it. Hill could not carry New
York, but Cleveland could easily
do SO with an increased majority.
"The President has surprising
strength among business people
generally, and the masses are in
spired with the idea of his safety.
There is no rupture between RAN
dali and the President. All of us
differ occasionally on matters of
legislation, but no opposition to
the President results from these
differences. Cleveland is the strong
est man before the people to-day
and will be the next President"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

That some of the Republican pa
pers and politicians are Far from
pleased with the "mixeds schools"
is evidenced by the following from
the Lebanon Star, the leading re-
publican paper of Warren county !:
"a correspondent in this impress
sion of the Star thinks that cSlpred
teachers will be put to great annoy
ance, ifnot hardship, if the & mot
eligible to appointment BY school
boards for teaching in white schools.
The remedy is very easy: just keep
the colored teachers and the colored
schools where they were when the
idiotic and uncalled for bill wiping
out the black laws was passed. The
law does not say the schools must
be mixed, but says they may be. A
result of employing colored teach
ers for white schools would be to
open the door of employment to a
few colored teachers, and closing it
on a very large number of white
children. People may call this pre-
judice ifthey will, butt it is al mighty
strong and lively one, and as a mat
ter of fact the world is compelled to
indulge more or less in prejadices
of various kinds as a means of self
protection"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

General Isaac S. Catlin, the lead
ing Republican of Brooklyn, New
York, who for the past twenty years
has been one of the staunchest Re-
publicans there, and the acknowl-
edged leader of the party for Kings
county, has abandoned the Repub-
lican party and joined the Democ-
racy. General Catlin has probably
done more for the Republican party
of Kings county than any other
one man. He was a brave soldier
during the war, and is a prominent
and popular member of the Grand
of the Republic and has a
personal following second to no
man in the State of New York.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

Its now almostthir years since
the duty Disappointing aJudge ofthe
Supreme Court of the United States
has fallen to the lot of a Democratic
President. The last appointee from
that side was the late MI. Justice
Clifford, appointed in 1858. There
is at present one Democrat upon the
bench, but he was originally a Re-
publican appointee. The death of
Justice Woods devolves upon Presi-
dent Cleveland the duty of appoint
ing his successor. Theincidentis, in
its way, a noteworthy one, but it at
tracts less attention than under the
circumstances it would have excit-
ed at an earlier time. The facts not
without significance. The import
ance ola changein party representa-
ton upon the Supreme Bench is not
so great nowadays as it was whent the
war of constitutional construction
was hotter, and the position of the
court itself has been insensibly al
tered by the events of the last three
decades. Ofcourse it is also to be re-
membered that,the change in party
representation which will Replace
upon thebench willnot at all change
thepoliticalcomplexion ofthe court.
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

Governor Davis, the first Demo-
cratic Governor Rhode Island has
had in more than a quarter of a
century, was inaugurated last week.
Under his administration it is ex.
pected that State will obtain some
reformswhich from theirverywhole-
someness will incline many of it's
voters toward the Democratic party
who hitherto never voted anything
else than Republican. Rhode Island
does not have a purely Republican
form of government, which ac-
counts for it's not electing Democra-
tic State officials more frequently.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09
Railroad News.
/. [Cincinnati Enquirer-June 3D.

.lCincinnatf Enquirer-June 3D.. 1
It was learned last night that the
c., H. & D. Vandalia deal has been
contaminated. The G., H. & D. Off
Gals were at Terre Haute yesterday
andmade the fiji stpaymentand have
secured the Terre Haute and Indian
apolis road and with it, of course,
its leased line, the st. Souls, Vandal-
la and Terre Haute.
On Saturday next the c., 3. &
people will take possession, offhis
new and important acquisitionito
their system. On that dayTa new
Board of Directors will be ELECTED.
1t is believed that the c., H D..
will tender the use of the line to the
Pennsylvania people upon the same
terms as they have heretofore oper-
ated over it. 1t is the intention ofthe
&C., H. & D., in connection with the
Baltimore & Ohio, to have the short
line from the seaboard to st. Louis
and the West. To secure this a piece
Itof road about thirty-five miles long
is to be built from D~aytonto Liberty
on the c., H. & I. road, and another
link is to be built in the near future
from Washington C. H., on the Day
ton & Ironton to Parkersburg where
connection will be made. with the
main stem of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad. The line between Dayton
and Liberty has already been sur
veyed, right of way secured and the.
steel to put down on this extension
has been purchased and active work
of construction will be commenced
at once! The Washington G.. H.
Parkersburg extension will be built
later. Under this plan the Dayton &
Ironton, which has hcretoforeibeen
an unimportant narrow-guage, will
become a link in the great trunk
line between the seaboard and St.
Louis. The d. & l., as is well.known,
has been changed to standard guage
Since it came into the hands of the
c., H. & D. and its earning capacity
has been largely increased and its
local business has already grown
wonderfully. The securing of the
Vandalia and the incorporating the
C., H. & I. in the through St. Louis
line willbe particularly beneficial to
the c., H. & I. division, whichin the
past has been Improbable III
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09
Democratic National Platform OF

Democratic National Platform OF
1854
ave believe hat the public lands
ought, as far as possible, be kept as
homesteads for actual settlers /; that
all unearned lands heretofore i'm
providently granted to railroad cor
porations by the action of the Re-
publican party should be restored to
the public domain, andthat no more
grants should be made to corpora
tions Or be allowed to fall into the
ownership of alien absentees."
Democratic President, 1857
"Ourpublic domain is our nation
al wealth, the earnest of our growth
and the heritage of our people. 1t
should promise limitless develop
ment and riches, relief to a crowd
ing population and homes to thrift
and industry. These estimable ad-
vantages should be jealousy guard
ed, and a careful and enlightened
policyon hcpart ofthe Gorerpment
should secure them to the people,"
Mr.. Cleveland stands firmly up.
on the platform ofhis party and this
sound homestead policy viii winthe
Democrats a greater victoryin 1883.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09
The action OF. the Democratic af

The action of. the Democratic adj
ministration with reference to rail-
way lands fraudulently granted to
corporations will have a great effect
on national politics next year. Mr..
Cleveland is a President who has
stood squarely upon the platform
prepared by his party. The people
endorsed the platform in 'S4, and
will endorse the President in 'SS.
He has demonstrated to the people
that principle makes the best poll
cy. He is the squarest kind of a
President.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

Edward F. Stoddard, a promi-
nent and influential citizen of the
city of Dayton, was shot in the head
on Tuesday night oflast week while
on his way home from a meeting of
the Board of Trade of that city. He
died the next day from the effects
of the wound. A young man by the
name of Newton Chubb, was in pos
session of the revolver that did the
fatal work. He claims the instru-
ment dropped out of his pocket
while running by and went off
when it struck the pavement
Whether it did or did not go off in
that way, is the question to be solv-
cd. :.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

According to statistics presented
the brewing of the United States
for the year ending April 80, 1887,
amounted to 23,514,425 barrels,
against 30,319,555 for the cores
ponding period ending April 80,
1886. This is an increase of nearly
1870 in the amount of beer brewed
in the country during a single
year. It proves that those who try
to wipe out the use of malt liquors
as well as wine and spirits have a.
gigantic task in hand. The use of
beer in the country, as shown by
manufacturing statistics, is greater
than the increase of population
The export is too small to account
for the difference.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

The New York Independent, one
of the %iercest religious Republican
papers in the country, as we'll as the
leading Presbyterian paper, says il
Blaine is nominated for the Presi-
dency he will be defeated. 1t strong
ly urges the Republicans to select a
good, honest man, with no foibles
or Objectionable features about him,
and such a Republican he thinks
can be elected. But where there is
such a P~uritanic Republican, the
editor does not say.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

The Galveston News gives the fol-
lowing tariff definition: Atariffis a
tax. A tax is a burden and takes a
portion of every ones earnings
Therefore, a tariff is injurious to a
laboring man, because it stints his
earnings. A protective tariff takes
from him money not needed to sup
port the Government, and gives his
pittance to manufacturers. There
fore, a protective tariffs wrong, and
arevenuetariffonly fairwhenitsbur-
dens r rightly adjusted and light.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09
The New York Star. solid Den

The New York Star, asolid DEM
ocratic journal, has undertaken the
job of raising $125,oOO to complete
the Grant monument. It looks as
if it would do it, but the sum raised
and used for charitable purposes
would be far more laudable.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09
ROAD NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that a petition
will be presented to the Commissioners of
Preble county, o., at their session to be held
on Saturday, July 9th, 1881, praying for the
alteration of the Ozias Free Pike, as follows !:
Beginning at q point in the said free pike
about 80 rods south of the north west corner
of the north east quarter of section 10, town
ship 8, range 2 east, Preble county, o.; thence
the alteration to curve to the east around the
creek near the edge of the hin and then curv-
ing south westerly and to intersect the old
line of said free pike about nine or ten rods
south of the place of beginning, and there to
terminate. ROBERT CRAIG,
June z, 1887.-4t. and IL othe rs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

Lieutenant Flipper, the colored
graduated of West Point who was dis
missed from the service for malfea-
sance in office, is in the syndicate
which has discovered the old gold
and silver mines in Mexico, and the
probabilities are that he will soon be
the richest negro on the continent.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

It is estimated that the Govern
ment revenue for the current fiscal
year will be greater by $14,0OO,OOO
than contemplated when the official
estimates were prepared for secreta-
ry Manning's report. The receipts
will surely aggregate $370,0O0,0 900.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09
[Cincinnati Telegram.l

Hon. Jas. E. Campbell and fami-
ly have returned from Washington.
The Democracy ofthis congression-
al district will support Mr.. Camp
bell as a candidate for Governor
They are enthusiastic for "Lucky
Jmmie," who carried this district
last fall with two majority, a dis
trict which heretofore gave a Re-
publican majority of about 1900.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

The Secretary ofthe Treasuryhas
issued a call for the redemption of
nearly three millions of go bonds,
the interest to cease after July LIST.
Thisis the last of all the bonds now
subject to redemption at par at the
discretion of the government.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09
[Cleveland Plain Dealer

The editor of the Ohio State Jour
nal is in pain because President
Cleveland went fishing on Decora-
ton day, and thinks he did it just
to show his i'll feeling toward union
soldiers. The o. S. ]. editor should
bore q gimlet hole in the wall and
stick his head in it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

Vice President VIM. A. Wheeler
is dead. Had he not been unfortu-
nately associated with the presi-
DENTAL fraud, he would have lived
and died regarded as sincerely an
honest man.